humiliated - Story 67307 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The numbers swam before John's eyes. He had just seen the official offer letter for the new junior developer, and his blood ran cold. It was significantly more than he made, and he'd been with the firm for seven years, and always got excellent performance reviews.

He felt a sudden, inexplicable urge to flee. He quickly shut down his computer, gathering his things with trembling hands.

He barely registered the greetings of his colleagues as he walked out the door. The bright sunlight outside felt harsh, unforgiving. He stood there for a moment, the city noise swirling around him, feeling completely lost.

Emotion: humiliated

Cluster: Embarrassment

PC1 (Valence): -1.79 Negative

PC2 (Disposition): 0.93

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion humiliated. During extraction, it was fed through Gemma4-31B and its hidden state activations were captured at 11 layers.

The mean activation across all 1,000 humiliated stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the humiliated emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the humiliated vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:

`C`	0.370
`l`	0.329
`尴尬`	0.322
`ness`	0.303
`because`	0.298

Suppressed:

`de`	-0.369
`own`	-0.254
`😍`	-0.253
`🤩`	-0.245
`cautiously`	-0.228